Whatt is the real meaning of peace? Once, a king in Britain made an offer that he __________ （give） a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artistes tried. The king looked at all the pictures but found that only two of them were _______(attract) to him, and he had to chooose between them. One picture had a calm lake ________ (paint) in the middle with high mountains all around it. Overhead was a buled sky with white clouds. Those who saw this picture all thought, without any different ideas, that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The ________ picture had mountains, too. Above _________ (be) an angry sky, form which rain fell and in which lightning played. A waterfall fell quickly down the side of the mountain. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the king looked _______(close), behind the waterfll he sww a small bush _________ (grow) in the rock. In the bush, a bird had built a nest. There, among the rush of angry water, sat ________bird on her nest-in perfect peace.
The king was abosorbed in the second picture, chose it and explained the reason _______ he preferred the latter, “Real peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is _______ real peace is.